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title: Following the end of the White Australia policy in 1973, Australia a… — Australia · tree and pragmatics
description: Following the end of the White Australia policy in 1973, Australia adopted multiculturalism as policy, culminating in the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. Who acts: Australia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Australia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Australia, sentence 325

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From Wikipedia, [«Australia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Following the end of the White Australia policy in 1973, Australia adopted multiculturalism as policy, culminating in the Racial Discrimination Act 1975.

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**Who acts:** Australia · **What happens:** follow, adopt, culminate · **To what, where:** multiculturalism, Racial Discrimination Act

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Australia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Australia), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Australia:325
# text = Following the end of the White Australia policy in 1973, Australia adopted multiculturalism as policy, culminating in the Racial Discrimination Act 1975.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	White	White	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	policy	policy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1973	1973	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	multiculturalism	multiculturalism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	policy	policy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	culminating	culminate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	Racial	racial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	Discrimination	Discrimination	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Act	Act	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	1975	1975	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **adopt** | past | Australia | multiculturalism |  |  | follow the end of the Australia policy in 1973 | as policy | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent multiculturalism=Theme as policy=Attribute |
| 3 | **culminate** | gerund | Australia *not said here* |  |  | the Racial Discrimination Act |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Australia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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